Profiles and interviews
Andy Batchelor — New Statesman, January 2018
Felicity Aston — Lenny, December 2017
Antonia Fraser — New Statesman, April 2017
Marin Alsop — New Statesman, April 2017
Sarah Brown — New Statesman, November 2016
Shami Chakrabarti — New Statesman, October 2016
Sheku Kanneh-Mason — New Statesman, September 2016
John Wilson — New Statesman, August 2016
Gwyneth Williams — New Statesman, March 2016
Angela Eagle — New Statesman, June 2015
James Rebanks — New Statesman, March 2015
Helen Zaltzman — New Statesman, February 2015
Libby Lane — New Statesman, December 2014
Emma Thompson — New Statesman, October 2014
Margaret Hodge — New Statesman, September 2013
Felicity Aston — New Statesman, August 2013
Eric Joyce — New Statesman, July 2013
Stephen Hough — New Statesman, May 2013
Eric Idle — New Statesman, November 2012
Graham Brady — New Statesman, August 2012
Features
The art of the diary — New Humanist, October 2017
Is it too soon to laugh about apartheid? — New Humanist, January 2017
On travelling alone — The Pool, December 2015
Essays
In Praise of SETI@home — How We Get To Next, April 2019
Losing the Night Sky — How We Get To Next, August 2018
“It was as if I had never existed”: when friends break up — New Statesman, March 2016
On exercise and yoga — The Pool, March 2016
On having cancer — The Pool, August 2016
We all wanted to go to Dreamland — New Statesman, June 2015
Caroline of Ansbach: the Georgian queen who brought the Enlightenment to Britain — New Statesman, May 2014
On Anne Lister — New Statesman, December 2013
Unladylike Shrieking — London Review of Books blog, September 2013
What do you do if your parents have drowned in the North Sea? — New Statesman, August 2013
On the Thames estuary — New Statesman, May 2013
Books
Review: How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price — New Statesman, February 2018
November 1887, Sherlock cracks his first case — The World Today, November 2017
Review: True Stories & Other Essays by Francis Spufford — New Statesman, October 2017
I loved rereading Harry Potter as an adult. Until I got stuck — New Statesman, June 2017
Review: Sister Sebastian’s Library by Phil Whitaker — New Statesman, June 2017
On The Apple Orchard by Pete Brown — New Statesman, October 2016
Review: Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer — New Statesman, May 2016
On The Confessions of Thomas Quick by Dan Josefsson — New Statesman, October 2015
Sheep Lit: On Writing (and Reading) About the Lives of Shepherds — The Millions, May 2015
Review: Instrumental by James Rhodes — New Statesman, June 2015
Review: Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke — New Statesman, September 2013
Review: The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida — New Statesman, July 2013
Music
Review: Falstaff at the Liverpool Philharmonic — New Statesman, December 2017
Review: Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House — New Statesman, November 2017
Why classical purists should start taking video game music seriously — New Statesman, November 2017
Review: Membra Jesu Nostri at Wigmore Hall — New Statesman, March 2017
Review: Adriana Lecouvreur at the Royal Opera House — New Statesman, February 2017
Review: Philip Lancaster’s War Passion at the Three Choirs Festival — New Statesman, July 2016
Review: Thomas Gould and Gwilym Simcock at Kings Place — New Statesman, May 2016
Review: Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khachaturian at the Liverpool Philharmonic — New Statesman, January 2016
How to write a Christmas carol — New Statesman, December 2015
Review: Jonathan Miller’s Mikado at the ENO — New Statesman, December 2015
Review: Keith Jarrett at the Southbank Centre — New Statesman, November 2015
Review: Berg’s Wozzeck at the Southbank Centre — New Statesman, October 2015
Why every progressive person should sing the Proms’ praises — New Statesman, July 2015
Review: Król Roger at the Royal Opera House — New Statesman, May 2015
Review: Sweeney Todd at the London Coliseum — New Statesman, April 2015
Review: Barbican James MacMillan retrospective — New Statesman, February 2015
Review: Mozart 250 — New Statesman, February 2015
Review: John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary — New Statesman, December 2014
Review: Malala, A Child of Our Time — New Statesman, November 2014
Review: John Tavener’s Flood of Beauty — New Statesman, October 2014
John Taverner obituary — New Statesman, November 2013
TV, radio, film, theatre and podcasts
The ethics of true crime TV — New Humanist, March 2019
The best podcasts of 2018 — New Statesman, December 2018
Why film producers have fallen for the reboot — Prospect, November 2018
Review: The Good Place — New Humanist, November 2018
Review: The Last Elfdalians on BBC Radio 3 — New Statesman, October 2018
True-crime podcasts aren’t solving miscarriages of justice – it’s more complicated than that — Metro, September 2018
Review: Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast — New Statesman, July 2018
Review: Under the Water on BBC Radio 3 — New Statesman, June 2018
Why do politicians keep making podcasts? — New Statesman, April 2018
Review: Queer Eye on Netflix — New Humanist, February 2018
Review: Slow Burn podcast — New Statesman, January 2018
Review: World Book Club on BBC World Service — New Statesman, January 2018
The best podcasts of 2017 — New Statesman, December 2017
Why the Shipping Forecast is even more wonderful than you realised — i, August 2017
Twin Peaks made TV what it is today — The Pool, May 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopian dread in the new golden age of television — New Statesman, May 2017
In the age of podcasts, the era of communal listening is over — New Statesman, February 2017
Why it’s time to start writing about podcasts as culture — New Statesman, October 2016
Against the odds, radio comedy has flourished in the internet age — New Statesman, September 2015
On Agent Carter — New Statesman, August 2015
Review: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet — New Statesman, August 2015
On Sally Wainwright — New Statesman, March 2015
On the Great British Bake Off — New Statesman, August 2014
On Masters of Sex — New Statesman, August 2014
Stop clap-shaming first-time theatregoers who like Martin Freeman from off the telly — New Statesman, July 2014
Review: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York’s Theatre — New Statesman, April 2014
On Jonathan Creek — New Statesman, February 2014
On Girls — New Statesman, January 2014
Review: Let the Right One In at the Royal Court Theatre — New Statesman, December 2013
On Borgen —New Statesman, November 2013
On series one of Broadchurch — New Statesman, April 2013
Review: Peter and Alice at the Noel Coward Theatre — New Statesman, April 2013
My series blog of much-lamented show The Hour — New Statesman, December 2012
Reporting
View from Wales: are Welsh male voice choirs dying out? — New Statesman, December 2017
View from Dover: from the white cliffs to White Van Man — New Statesman, June 2017
Sweet singing in the choir: preparing for Christmas with Salisbury’s girl choristers — New Statesman, December 2016
Comment
Zero Waste Shouldn’t Be A Privilege — How We Get To Next, March 2019
How one YouTube video revealed the problem of fame in 2018 — Prospect, June 2018
Ed Miliband has finally found his calling: it’s podcasts, not politics — Prospect, October 2017
Bongs, bangs and broken bells: why the sound of Big Ben resonates in British culture — Prospect, August 2017
The G8: what did it achieve? — The Guardian, June 2013
Why I don’t like Breast Cancer Awareness Month — New Statesman, October 2012
Cameron, Miliband and Clegg must lower their guns over party funding — The Guardian, August 2012
George Galloway’s maverick approach to marriage — The Guardian, April 2012
At Davos, Peter Mandelson’s dark arts lose their power — The Guardian, January 2012
Andrew Lansley’s brilliantly backward steps — The Guardian, December 2011
The latest playground insult for adults? You’re so ‘leftwing’ — The Guardian, November 2011
Full-body scanners: all the ingredients for a Tory farce — The Guardian, November 2011
